Julio Cortázar: New Readings

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Carlos J. Alonso
Cambridge University Press, 1998 M06 13 - 260 pages
The essays gathered here address the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar's oeuvre from a variety of critical positions and focus on several of his multifarious writings: poems, short stories, novels, and miscellanea. The intention has been to provide the space for a reappraisal of Cortázar that will question received notions and assumptions regarding his works, and hence pave the way for an overarching revision of his production and his place in Latin American letters. Although significantly different in their theoretical approach, style, and their point of insertion in Cortázar's oeuvre, the essays collectively manage to configure a Cortázar whose contours will both surprise and enlighten the reader.

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List of Illustrations page vii
1
READING POLITICS
6
READING CORTÁZAR TODAY
19
Cortázar in the Age
36
Cortázars Closet
76
CORTÁZAR READS CORTÁZAR
91
Cortázar and the Idolatry of Origins
110
Supposing Morelli Had Meant to Go to Jaipur
130
Apocalypse at Solentiname as Heterological Production
157
From
183
Pursuing a Perfect Present
211
Press Clippings and Cortázars Ethics of Writing
237
Index
259
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